absolute bullshit, it burns more in carbon to run those machines than it takes out, this is making shit worse at an accelerated pace

it’s time for a decentralized unionized taxi app

yes, but that’s not what a ‘spoiler’ is

true and justice my dear brother/sister

I don’t like JFK Jr, at all but how is he a “spoiler” if he’s running in the primaries? I thought 3rd parties are spoilers.

Absolutely, which is why the Democrats need to embrace progressive policies that are supported by the vast majority of americans like Universal Healthcare and Marijuana Legalization.

Also, how did LBJ pass the Civil Rights Act when half of his own party were Dixiecrats?

another thing you should never do is look into private trackers

true. I know a lot of people are in similar situations, that’s what kept me on facebook for years. I’ll just say at this point, twitter could just die any day now, starting DMing people if you haven’t already and find another way to say in touch.

Personally I prefer to just not pay for anything exept internet and torrent and stream everything for free, much cheaper, no restrictions

Matrix is hella buggy, Session part of the lokinet weird ancap crypto scheme, XMPP is god tier

Briar, now that’s a thingy

I had a conversation with a cryptographer who worked for Wickr he says none of the DoD or other government agents he knew trusted Signal 🤔 - personally I use Signal with my mom or personal friends as like the bottom tier of security, because metadata is a real thing, they don’t have to actually know what you’re talking about. Just using a phone number itself tells you most everything feds need to know if they’re really after you.

if you actually want privacy use XMPP

at this point, with twitter being inaccessible to non logged in user, the ‘public square’ thing is totally done,. Get off twitter now. There are alternatives.

2000 redux

Why are Democrats Lying about the 2000 election? Gore Won, the Bush Bros sabotaged the election, Bush’s victory was declared by the supreme court.

Likewise far more registered Dems voted Bush than all green voters combined.

Stop rewriting history and legitimizing the Bush Administration.

You’re right about what a clusterfuck it would be, I’m glad you are well aware of the Sad Sorry State of the Democratic Party.

The Easy Solution for that ClusterFuck is to maybe not try to rig the primary against Sanders. But of course they won’t do that. They will waste hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure they get another corporate puppet in there who has as much of a chance of winning as Biden.

That again, does not disprove the fact that Biden is deeply unpopular and his election is not a safe bet. Especially if the long predicted economic crisis comes to pass or any other number of things could happen. I would be happier if Biden himself just made more commitments to progressive issues, ending the blockade or cuba or freeing political prisoners could be done with a strike of the pen. But we know he won’t do anything like that.

We picked Biden in 2020 and picking a candidate one year comes with an implicit outcome of picking them in the next election, if they win the first time.

This is strange logic honestly, as the DNC said in court in 2017 about having fair and impartial primaries “There’s no contractual obligation” for us to elect him again.

That bit about waiting about 2028 is rich, why would the DNC change then? I doubt the threat of fascism would go away, they probably would have made more gains by then. They will say ‘not this year, next time’ forever. Maybe send that back to the thinktank and see if you can be not so transparent lol

The DNC is going to do this charade of trying to browbeat and guilt trip young and minority voters into getting out the vote like they did in 2016, and I don’t think it’s gonna work. because that’s not how you win elections. You win elections by mobilizing voters, offering them things they want and delivering - the dems want to do everything but give people what they want and then wonder why they lose to a party 75% of the country hates

polls and Jokes Aside, what would make you think that Biden’s popularity is actually going to increase? Biden is no Obama. Especially if there is both Cornel West and Joe Manchin who will be chipping away at both his left and centrist support. It could even be the GOP splits and runs 2 or more candidates. I Don’t think there even is precedent for this, and well, I’m just gonna say I don’t think Biden has the kind of political acumen to navigate that kind of chaotic and unprecedented election year.

Very True, we cannot prediction the future, that’s why I think by this time next year Cornel West will be the front runner 😎

That’s exactly it. They seem to think never losing another election is a realistic option without also embracing a FDR style populism.

It’s like Cornel West says:

Milquetoast Neoliberalism Can Never Defeat Fascism

If they’re so threatened by this guy, maybe they should embrace medicare 4 all or marijuana legalization, the Green New Deal etc. That’s ^^ the bare minimum really

I’m just saying we need to hold our Politicians accountable in order to make sure they do they right thing. I believe in Democracy and part of that is a having a lively debate about issues that affect us - not just lock step refusing to acknowledge that people are suffering. That doesn’t help us overall, and that certainly doesn’t help you win an election, so I hope that the presence of 3rd party candidates will force the democrats to move left on key issues, maybe they can spend the many millions of dollars they receive on mobilizing voters, because otherwise they are most likely going to lose. The Democrats need to deal with their own internal problems and start asking why the hugely unpopular GOP is so close to beating them instead of blaming everything on 3rd parties.

Did they say that Ross Perot was a threat to the constitutional order? I find that unlikely, they certainly didn’t make this much noise about it the year before the election.

And yes, everyone who disagrees with you is a Putin bot – speaking of the early 90’s, do you remember see how Clinton supported Yeltsin’s coup which directly paved the way for Putin to take power in the first place? Of course, Bill couldn’t have known that, but maybe the lesson here is we shouldn’t be supported coup’s in other countries, ya know, overthrowing democracies and putting fascists in power. That’s bad right?

I’ll agree with you there that polls generally can’t be trusted, and I agree people need to get out and vote, but It makes our job a lot easier if you have a candidate that people actually like. So I really hope – for the sake of the republic – that they convince Joe to step down and open up the primaries.